Opinion – Page 290
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Business planning: home and away
How do you plan ahead and formulate business strategies amid all the uncertainty of political uprisings - and the upcoming Budget?
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Wonders & blunders with Mike Barker
Mike Barker’s architectural picks are all bound up with nature. He loves an Iraqi school built out of reeds, but doesn’t care two straws about Beijing’s over-designed Bird’s Nest
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Hansom: La belle vie
We report on racy goings-on, with recently arrested property magnates throwing yacht parties, firms hosting lavish dinners, and politicians talking procreation. And some said Mipim was tamer this year …
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Were Japan's defences up to it?
ڶs in Japan withstood the earthquake well, but were no match for the tsunami that ensued
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Welcome to Cheapsville
Regarding the story Shapps calls for end to “Legoland” homes, (9 March, www.building.co.uk) it is the planners who are failing in their duty to ensure appropriate local design.
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Missing digits
As the owner of a late Victorian semi-detached house in a conservation zone I have been reading Robert Prewett’s Passivhaus Diaries, regarding the conversion of 64 Midmoor Road to a low-energy building, with great interest (4 March, page 42)
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Those who dare ...
Reflecting on Richard Saxon’s letter (Inbox, 11 March), and Rob Charlton’s original thoughts (25 February, page 33), they have identified one of our industry’s core problems - too much functional focus and segregation on a project.
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OFT could pay for being over-keen
According to directives from Europe, the OFT’s fines are levied on the basis of companies’ global turnover, not profit
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CITB levy: For and against
We hear two opposing viewpoints over whether the CITB construction levy should be axed
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Bleak outlook for construction jobs as the downward trend continues
Another 9000 jobs were lost in the fourth quarter of 2010
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Earthquake eyewitness: 'It was like a being in a small boat in mountainous seas'
Construction Excellence’s chief executive Don Ward gives a graphic account of the moment Friday’s 9.0 quake hit Japan
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Spotlight now on OFT to defend five-year investigation
Huge reduction in fines means the OFT will have to justify whether all the pain was worth it
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Frameworks: Putting SMEs in the frame
This weeks biggest stories are frameworks, SMEs and Mipim
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Agents have eye on traditional QS markets
New rivals are encroaching on surveying and engineering territory
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Awful January construction output figures may just be the result of a hangover from December
Figures suggest that less work was done in January than in December
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Asking for the moon
A lot of offices designed pre-recession and waiting to be built won’t meet the toughest environmental standards. Once we start building again, we have to aim higher
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ڶ buys a pint for… the ڶ Awards shortlist
Last week ڶ hosted a drinks reception for those shortlisted for the ڶ Awards. It wasn’t so much ڶ buys a pint, but ڶ lays on heaps of booze and everyone on the shortlist is invited. The Met Bar, famous in the nineties for its celebrity clientele, had probably never ...
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Let's dance
We’re in a party mood this week, as we toast the ڶ Awards 2011 finalists at an exclusive, and very sartorially aware, London venue. Now, has anyone seen my bow tie?
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Contractor results: A turn up for the books
The latest City updates by contractors reveal a surprisingly healthy outlook, says Alastair Stewart. Order books are good shape and margins are rising … among the heavy weights at least